Improvement in dummies



. NITED STATES NEHEMIAH WARD, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

IMPROVEMENT IN DUMMIES.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 155,906, dated October 13, 1874; application filed June 29, 1874.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, NEHEMIAH WARD, of the city, county, and State of New York, have invented certain Improvements in Dummies for Show-Windows, of which the following is a specification:

This invention is in tended to provide a support for samples of goods on exhibition in show-windows of stores; and it consists in having two boxes of straw board, or some similar light material, so shaped and hinged together that when covered with a single thickness of silk, it will look like an entire piece of silk in the original package, and in this manner may be set in the window to serve all the purposes of the whole piece for exhibition, as will hereafter appear.

Figure 1 is a perspective view of the dummy complete, and covered with the sample of goods. same.

The present method of constructing said dummies is to form blocks of wood similar in shape to the spaces shown in the section atA and B, and then around these blocks the straw-board is Wrapped or bent, as shown at Fig. 2, and it is fastened to the blocks with Fig. 2 is a transverse section of the tacks or glue, or in other suitable manner, and the central portion of the board serves as a means of fastening the two boxes together, or acts like a hinge to the two parts, as well as to give the proper shape to the package.

This board may also be ornamented in any desired manner, and the blocks may be covered with cloth or fancy paper, and then a sample of the silk or other material to be shown is wrapped around the outside of said NEHEMIAH WARD. \Vit-nesses:

OHAs. A. CODMAN, BOYD ELIOT. 

